Stuart Watkins if I had a year to give loan or devote one year to explore share or experience a year to daydream I’d spend that year with you hand holding stargazing moments moments of a year together if I had a year a year plucked out of time a tempting poetic thought poetic in…
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Features, October 2020
Resurrection Church Is Back
David Stanard Forced to close its doors last spring, Resurrection Church held its first service of what is assumed to be the beginning of the post-pandemic era on Sunday, Sept. 13. That was the second Sunday of the month, a noteworthy date in the life of the church, for it was the second Sunday of September…
Features, October 2020
Artist of the Month: Color on Cloth: Expert Batik Artist Explores Textile Techniques
LaVerne Kyriss Greta von Wrangel is a long-time textile artist who started learning batik when her mother took a class in 1968 to learn the technique involved in using layers of wax resist and multiple dye baths to create intricately designed, often multi-colored fabric. “I designed a batik featuring one of the iconic Victorian San…
Features, October 2020
Dollars and Sense: Refinancing Your Home
The Paseo Financial Group If you are interested in borrowing against your home’s available equity, you have choices. One option would be to refinance and get cash out. Another option would be to take out a home equity line of credit (HELOC). Here are some of the key differences between a cash-out refinance and a…
Features, October 2020
In Passing
John Bezy Longtime resident of SaddleBrooke, John Bezy, 75, died on Sept. 5, 2020. Many residents of this community have fond memories of traveling with John throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and the Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni Nations. His vast knowledge of these regions—their inhabitants, their art, and their history—made these trips pleasurable…
Features, October 2020
Word of the Month: Petrichor
David Zapatka Following a good rain after a long, dry spell one evening on the pickleball court with friend Natasha Thompson, that luscious smell we are all familiar with danced in our noses. Imagine that fresh, earthy smell we all know so well as you read this column. Tash said, “There’s a word for that…
Features, October 2020
2 Your Health: Your Pain Medication Might Be Killing You
Dr. Craig Brue Many patients feel safe because their family medical doctor has prescribed a strong narcotic medication for acute or chronic back pain. Just because your doctor prescribes a pain medication does not mean that it is either safe or effective. Medications always have harmful side effects. In fact, there are always more side effects with…
Features, October 2020
21-Gun Salute
Robert Koblewski In observance of Labor Day and Patriot Golf Day, the Oro Valley American Legion Post Color Guard honored our veterans by performing a 21-Gun Salute at the MountainView driving range tee on Sept. 7. Many residents attended and sang along for the national anthem.
Features, October 2020
My Last Poem
Stuart Watkins This is the last poem I’ll ever write you and I am glad words have been arranged rearragned thoughtfully and randomly presented the gist always the same I love you but your distance has remained friendship contained response restrained yet I still love you no matter where winds fate and time find me…
Features, October 2020
Suspension
Anne Grant In a flash, the photographer has captured a moment The photographic image, frozen now, and thus suspended out of time, Invites me to roam There’s much I do not know Does the overarching lynx, suspended in mid-air Reaching for the golden partridge terrifyingly suspended between life and death make his kill? Safely removed,…